Matt Locke is Commissioning Editor for Education at Channel 4. He works with the Education team to commission online services that will deliver informal learning in innovative and exciting ways to teenage audiences.

In the first year of its new online strategy, C4 Education projects have won numerous awards, including an Emmy for Battlefront,  BIMA awards for the 1066, Year Dot and Routes projects and three BAFTA Kids nominations.

Before Channel 4, Matt was Head of Innovation for BBC New Media & Technology. He was responsible for developing and running research programmes within the BBC and with external partners, including developing academic and industry partnerships, and developing open innovation initiatives like http://backstage.bbc.co.uk  and http://open.bbc.co.uk/labs/ .

Before joining the BBC, Matt worked as a curator and writer, specialising in the social adoption of technology and the cultural impact of digital technology, and still continues to write regularly about these themes for journals, websites and his own site at www.test.org.uk

Company profile

Channel 4 is a public service broadcaster funded solely from commercial revenues. It receives free spectrum in return for fulfilling its public service obligations as set out in the 1990 and 1996 Broadcasting Acts and its licence, issued by Ofcom, which was last updated in December 2004.

More than any UK broadcaster, it tries new ideas, takes risks and presents alternative points of view. Channel 4's public service role is underpinned by its aim to:

- nuture new talent and original ideas

- challenge people to see the work differently

- champion alternative voices and fresh perspectives and

- inspire change in people's lives